Comprehensive list of REAL things that won’t vanish in the next great financial collapse

• Cash (green paper money, which may become instantly worthless, so don’t hold too much)
  
• Pre-1963 coins (that contain silver content)
  
• Physical metals (gold, silver, platinum)
  
• Collector’s coins, stamps and historical firearms
  
• Practical firearms and suppressors (silencers)
  
• Bearer bonds or corporate stock shares
  
• Natural medicine, seeds and essential oils
  
• Museum-quality art
  
• Valuable yachts or boats if used as the bugout transport of choice
  
• Small aircraft, if you fly out as your bugout strategy
  
• Deeds to land assets (paper proof of ownership)
  
• Antibiotics and prescription painkillers or insulin (high value, easy to carry)
  
• Bitcoin wallets on a thumb drive, hopefully encrypted and backed up somewhere else (will only work if the internet stays alive)
  
• Night vision equipment (PVS-14)
  
• Small radiation detectors
  
• THINGS YOU KNOW: (all the things you know are, by definition, portable)
  
  
  
  • Medical knowledge / first aid / surgical experience / infectious disease
    
  • Communications knowledge / HAM operator / shortwave radio
    
  • Firearms knowledge / gunsmithing / long-range shooting
    
  • Natural medicine knowledge / natural antibiotics / wound healing / prevention
    
  • Food knowledge / harvesting / preparation / preservation / seed saving / wildcrafting
    
  • Workshop knowledge / repair / making tools / blacksmithing / construction
    
  • Navigation knowledge / compass navigation / topo map reading / area knowledge
    
  • Rural living knowledge / animal care / roping / knot tying / butchering
    
  
  
  

• Land, real estate and commercial buildings
  
• Ranch animals / cattle
  
• Vehicles, tractors and even construction equipment
  
• Ammunition
  
• Ammo reloading equipment / brass / bullets
  
• Storable food
  
• Water filters
  
• Honey (it’s food and medicine, and lasts for decades)
  
• Salt (very heavy but also invaluable if you need some)
  
• Water wells, springs or flowing water sources
  
• Large water storage containers / tanks
  
• Recreational vehicles that can be lived in
  
• Solar power systems
  
• Defensive bunkers / underground homes / shelters
  
• Alcohol stills
  
• Communications gear: HAM radios and antennas
  
• Machine shops or heavy tools
  
• Large generators
  
• Fuel stores (diesel, propane, natural gas)
  
• Ballistic protection gear (helmets, vests, shields)
  
• Heavy equipment grease, hydraulic fluid and engine oil
  
• Knives, machetes, hatchets and tomahawks
  
• Tactical optics (binoculars or magnifiers)
  
• Portable light sources: Lanterns, flashlights
  
• BIC lighters and magnesium fire starters (easy to barter, may be portable but are not very valuable per kg)
  
• Protective gear vs. biological agents and infectious disease (masks, surgical gloves, body suits, etc.)
  
• Personal hygiene items: toilet paper / feminine hygiene / soap
  
• Canning equipment, food dehydrators or smoke houses
  
• Bicycles and other human-powered gear
  

• Pensions
  
• iPhones, Android and all mobile devices
  
• Digital bank accounts holding “money” in electronic form
  
• Paper currency (might hold value temporarily, but could collapse suddenly)
  
• Check books (nobody will accept a check when the banks are down)
  
• Anything that runs on gas (will be hard to find fuel)
  
• GPS navigation devices (won’t work without satellites and power)
  
• Apartments at very high levels of buildings (no electricity means “vertical hiking” up dangerous stairwells)
  
• Luxury vehicles with heavy reliance on electronics (the simpler the vehicle, the better)
  
• Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter and social media
  
• Your Blu-Ray DVD collection
  
• Cell phone communications
  
• Government entitlements: Food stamps / Medicare / Medicaid / Unemployment
  
• Academic degrees in “social justice” topics
  
• Electronic books (Kindle)
  
• U.S. Treasury bills or other forms of government debt (including municipal bonds)
  

Right now might be a good time to trade VIRTUAL assets for REAL assets